Thank you for your compliment! I don’t use anything special. I only use an old iPhone and good light (good light is more important than the camera...
The copper plates were engraved in the 18th century and still in the museum. They also have a large collection of originsl woodcuts in their...
You have a good eye! I believe is it Ephesian Artemis (Diana), the twin sister of Apollo. Here another example from the same book, again designed...
In the 19th and the early 20th century it was normal for a museum to use old wood blocks or copper plates to sell souvenirs. Sometimes they...
Nice! By incident I bought a few altar cards (as in your last photo) a few weeks ago! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
After a painting of David Teniers the Younger? [ATTACH] https://www.mfab.hu/artworks/10709/
Some more info about the Madonna....
“Opera” is another common term for complete works. [ATTACH]
Some more info: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25845137M/Robinson%27s_progressive_intellectual_arithmetic
In early modern times often the printing houses did not bind the book. A buyer ordered a book at the printer shop and then let it bind at the book...
It still fits on a 3.5 inch floppy disk when it is 1 MB.
Recycling is from all times. This is called maculature. Fragment of a 15th century manuscript (probably a Book of Hours) on a 17th century book....
It looks like laid (handmade, pre-industrial revolution) paper to me.
I try to inspire others in interest in early modern books. As you can see there is so much depth and richness in the research you can do for such...
Thank you for your post! That breviary has a bizarre format. My Psalterium was ment for church choirs to sing from, so the large size was a plus,...
Yes the quality of these pictures is very high.
In this book there are several art works from different ages. The oldest I have found so far is this large Capital C (84x84mm). Stylistically this...
I’d like to share some details about a recent acquisition in my collection: a richly bound Psalterium Romanum printed in 1713 by the Officina...
I do not think the reverse reveals extra information in this case.
The smaller letters are a bit mangled up unfortunately because of your “enhancement”.
Separate names with a comma.
